Proceso de la ideación y reflexión en el acto de diseño

Abstract

The concept of 'idea' is essential in design, and its understanding leads to different questions about its definitions, processes for generating, teaching, replicating, as well as questions about its materiality and immateriality. Definitions range from the stimuli that make it possible to the thinking approaches of those who study it. The objective of this research is to study the different relationships involved in the Ideation Process, in order to acquire and construct new criteria for recognizing, generating, and representing the idea in the field of design. Identifying these relationships leads to a series of questions about how to process and visualize these relationships, and what instruments can make them visible and cognizable. Relationship visualizations should allow for solid, concrete, and accessible theoretical explanations for those studying the idea and its processes. To answer these questions, analysis methodologies such as the Hermeneutic Circle and Grounded Theory are used, which allow for systematic gathering of information on the Ideation Process to contribute to an empirical base and theoretical explanation of the processes. This research is carried out in two phases: the first has a hypothetical-deductive approach, where information is recovered and analyzed for visualization; the second phase is developed from an inductive approach involving hermeneutic processes. In the first phase, 50 concepts were identified, and an extensive state of the art of the Ideation Process was developed, demonstrating the problematic nature of the study. In the second phase, with the help of the visualized instruments, a proposal for a theoretical framework was generated, with which it is intended to show a way of taking advantage of and recovering the information already visualized, to give way to theoretical explanations with empirical support. In conclusion, it is found that the Ideation Process is not an entity that should be understood through a set of isolated definitions, but rather should be understood in terms of its essence of multiplicity, where its meanings are modified in relation to the criteria of the analyzer.